＂Divide & Conquer Distraction＂ - @Channel5YouTube SLAMS Media's Culture War SCAM
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In this episode, the boys talk about the Democratic Party's plummeting approval ratings and why they should be worried about it. They also discuss the trans women in sports controversy and why it's a distraction from the real issues facing the country.
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When I look at the Democratic Party and their approval rating was higher pre, what do you want to call it, pre-Obama was higher.
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And even let's just say during Obama as well was higher.
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To where it's at today, I don't know if you've seen the rating or not, where they're at.
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Have you seen that lately, what they've been reporting?
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I didn't even know they did approval ratings for people who aren't in power.
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It's done by CNN, which is the one I trust the most because CNN polls Democrats.
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Yeah, they want that number to be as high as possible.
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Yeah, Fox is like, turns out everyone fucking hates him.
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Rob, do you have the video where the guy, Hinton, what's his name?
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But when you watch this, you ask yourself, okay, why is that idea not as popular as it used to be?
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The numbers are staggering on how much it's dropped.
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So if you go on X, just type in Hinton Democratic Rating.
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There is another one that he did that's more recent.
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While he finds it, I just want to say, I think that the trans women in sports thing
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is like a classic divide and conquer, overblown, culture war, distraction, divide the public
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Because like, realistically, they know that what they're doing now by creating that issue
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is that it's taking precedence over things that are far more important that affect millions
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And they know that there's going to be a push on the progressive side to vehemently
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defend that, you know, because that's what they do.
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And there's going to be a conservative push to make that the main issue.
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It's almost like filibustering public conversation.
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And let's give credence to 20% of the argument of that being a part of it.
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Let's put that there that I think there's a part of it that the opposing side's like,
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I get a little bit of that, you know, that's happening where they're shown.
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Like, hey, look at what's going on with, you know, the economy, stock market drop.
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However, maybe some of it is also the bad policies cost a lot of people to leave the Democratic Party.
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Rob, if you want to play this clip, watch this one here.
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There's an updated one, but let's just watch it.
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All I have to say, Democrats, call your office.
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To quote the great Charles Barkley, view Democratic Party favorably.
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The low is going back on record to 1990 in NBC News polling.
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Yeah, probably because he can't match the guy's energy on the right.
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At this point, all I can say is I'm a big fan of the oldies, so I'm going to quote Trump.
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Voters' views of the Democrats in Congress among all voters disapproved 68 percent.
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The plurality of Democratic voters disapprove of Democrats in Congress at 49 percent.
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So, then the question becomes, how did you guys get here?
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And then you said you're for higher taxes for the guys that are making more money.
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Not, okay, just to clarify, I'm talking about like the genuine like billionaires.
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Like, for example, California, the tax system is ridiculous.
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Like, I got, they took, I think, 45 percent of my income in total when you add up state
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And I would have used that money to hire more people.
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So, the logic is like we're going to take this money and distribute it to those who need
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But I actually would have used that money to hire like five more of my friends and pumped
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I don't believe that entrepreneurs who are like around that like million, two million to
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But I'm talking about when people are hoarding such absurd amounts of wealth, multi-billion
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I just think that it should, to a certain extent, be distributed.
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Not necessarily in the way of like the government seizes all of their assets and gives it to
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But there has to be a way to bridge the extreme divide in income inequality in the country.
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You just answered a very important question that took me a while to figure out.
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When I was making $30,000, $40,000, $50,000, I'm like, dude, these rich people are greedy.
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Then when I started working my ass off and I built a business and the money came in,
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I'm like, dude, if I had the money, I would hire five more people right now.
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If I had that money, I would hire 10 more people right now.
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And if you don't, you go buy a car, you're creating jobs.
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If you don't, you put in a bank, the bank's going to lend it to somebody.
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If you don't, you put in a mutual fund that company is working, someone's getting paid.
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No matter where the money floats, it's creating jobs.
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So the question on raising of the taxes, do you think you're more capable of doing good
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That's a really, really good question in terms of personal financial liberty.
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I mean, as far as that question goes, obviously you would be better at spending your own money
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than the government if you're managing a business.
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But the fact is that once you get past a certain threshold of wealth, a lot of people are just
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hoarding it and not pumping it back into the economy.
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Like back in the day with Reagan when he installed supply side economics, the idea was,
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oh my God, it's going to stimulate the economy so much if we give no taxes to billionaires
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But what happened is they ended up just kind of hoarding the money, buying more estates,
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jets, vacations, living a lavish lifestyle because there's a human tendency to just want
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to be as much of a baller as possible when you have a billion dollars.
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Everybody wants to flex, get the nicest car, get a helicopter, do things that you can't
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do, things that you've dreamed of when you're playing like Grand Theft Auto as a child.
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You're asking me like, what would I buy if I was a greedy billionaire?
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You want to do a hundred million, you want to do a billion, or you want to stick to billionaires?
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Yeah, let's stick to people who are making, you know, multi-billion dollars every year.
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Well, first thing that comes to mind for me is a pool, like an infinity pool that bleeds
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A fleet of jet skis for all of my friends, so we can kind of travel that way.
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Corporate real estate on the water, so we can jet ski from the house to work.
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This is the kind of shit that you're talking about.
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Type in Larry Ellison's headquarters, parks his yacht.
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He literally parks his boat in front of the property that he has.
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Whether it's Intel or Oracle, it's one of the two.
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So far we got pool, infinity pool on the water.
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And then you have a corporate real estate on the water to jet ski from office to the house.
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Dermatologist to live on scene to help me with my skin problems.
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I just know that once you pass a certain amount of money, it becomes a competition as to who can get the most flashy thing.
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Am I a tech billionaire or am I like a Saudi royal family member?
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On the west coast of Jamaica, Westmoreland Parish.
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Well, what a lot of billionaires do is they use their money to kind of like use the legal
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system, civil court in particular, to bully people who talk badly about them.
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So that means they hire a PR firm and lawyers, right?
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If there's something that I don't know about billionaires, I want you to tell me.
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So if they have an infinity pool, does it have to be maintained?
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There is pool staff that needs to make sure the water goes.
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There's not too much chlorine going into the ocean.
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Somebody has to take care of it on a weekly basis to build an infinity pool.
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Rob, how much put average price of building an infinity pool in Malibu?
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Let's just average price of infinity pool building in Malibu, California.
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Give us a price point on infinity pool estimate of cost 65 to 150,000.
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That's actually a lot less expensive than I thought it would be.
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In luxury infinity pool, 150 can exceed to $500,000.
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That's a lot of jobs that people are going to get paid.
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If you buy jet skis, let's say it's $25,000 for a good jet ski.
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And you need to get six to eight so that you and your core employees can commute to work
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So headquarters, corporate headquarters on the water, construction workers, plumbers,
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electrician, it's a lot of jobs being created, right?
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If you have a private personal trainer, that's a job you're creating.
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If you have a chef, that's a job you're creating.
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People should be able to get nice things for themselves if they work super hard.
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But that's not the kind of guy who's like, if you work hard, you have to, you should
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give all your money to people who are, you know, are on the lower income.
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I'm just saying that like the specific tax rate should be a little bit higher, not ridiculously
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higher, but higher enough to where they can have substantial social welfare programs.
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My biggest challenge with that is, is even the greediest of the greediest who goes and
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is like flaunting a big ass platinum gold chain that they're putting around their neck
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that they bought for whatever that somebody took three months to build.
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Even if they put the money in the bank and they're sitting on it, the bank is lending
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Chase is not going to let money stay in the bank.
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The moment you put money in Chase, guess what Chase is doing?
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So no matter what you do, the basis of this question for me goes, who's going to do better
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Giving it to the government because you said what?
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Right after when I said taxes, you said in California, what did you say?
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You said in California, you know, the taxes that you're paying 45 percent, but then at
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the same time, taxes are not being used effectively.
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How much of that are we going through right now?
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Well, I mean, on the inverse, what do you think will solve the problem of the extreme
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That's the thing is everyone sees Gavin Newsom as like an enabler for all these destructive
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democratic policies, but he still makes concessions to conservatives who are like bullying
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For example, let's take the Tenderloin in San Francisco, which is the biggest, is still
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He, you know, obviously during the Biden administration and when Newsom was in control, he still is.
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Those people smoking fentanyl on the streets, people defecating and sleeping in the streets.
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No, I think we can just overlay it or something.
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But I mean, in general, Governor Newsom was being kind of like shit on for letting that
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But the reality is, and people on the ground know this, there was supposed to be a safe
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injection site that was two blocks long, two blocks wide.
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That was supposed to be maintained by the state and the city.
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So it made it so people wouldn't be able to use heroin, fentanyl and meth on the streets.
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They would have to go to a controlled environment where the public and children and people who
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were living in that community wouldn't have to interact with them and they could have the
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At the last minute, Governor Newsom didn't build it because he was too scared of being
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getting another media smear campaign and being made to seem like someone who lets people
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So with the Democratic establishment in California, there's a lot of hypocrisy and there's a lot
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There's not much transparency as far as what's happening with all these taxes that are being
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taken away from people who worked hard to make that money.
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We do know that a trillion dollars of wealth have left California in the past four years.
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We do know that cities like San Francisco and L.A. that are still generating a ton of
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money, much of that money isn't even being given, pumped back into the city because so
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There's a lot of people working in California that decide not to live there because they
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can do their work for tech companies remotely elsewhere in a more affordable state like
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So I think that when you look at progressive policies and you look at poverty and it's not
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changing and then you look at the tax rate going up and down, it can be easy to say,
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And that's why there's so much like a sense of apathy and nihilism when it comes to the
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That's why people are saying, oh, you know, billionaires are the worst, kill them all like
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on the Internet because they've seen nothing change and they're seeing, OK, the cost of
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Yet there's this class of people who are unaffected by it.
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So the question is, then, if we don't raise the taxes, what can be done to change that
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No, I mean the situation with inequality and poverty.
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Yeah, but that's that's not how it works, though, because to me, here's how it works.
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OK, let's just say you got three sons and they're all 25 years old.
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First one to give $100,000, he goes to Singapore.
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He parties, he comes back, has a lot of stories, says, dad, I tried an opportunity.
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He takes $100,000, go buys a small condo, gets a nice little job, makes $120,000 a year,
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Third one, he gives $100,000, takes $100,000, starts a little real estate shop, turns into
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The first son, you give $100,000, went to Singapore, comes back, says he wants a quarter.
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Which of those three are you more comfortable giving more money to, knowing you're going
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I kind of got lost in the metaphor here because I was just thinking about Singapore.
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The second guy is a stable guy, good citizen, gets a job.
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Or the third one that starts a business and makes the money grow for you?
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I mean, probably the three because it would be a bigger investment.
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But I mean, aside from a business standpoint, like if we obviously, you recognize that there's
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a big problem with homelessness, poverty, unaffordability.
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I mean, I would just assume that because the social safety net is so small here and there's
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such little being provided for people in terms of mental health services, the Broken
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Veterans Administration, so many different things, unaffordability.
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Like there's just not enough resources to set up people who are to help people who are
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So to me, when you ask the question, if we don't raise the taxes, then how are we going
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To me, the question becomes the last 30 times we agreed to give you more money, you wasted
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Why should we trust you to give you more money?
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Because if I give money to Amazon, if I give money in a company like NVIDIA, if I give
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money to Tesla, if I give money to Ford or Disney and I buy the stock and I'm like a
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If I give more money to the government, what is the quarterly earnings?
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There's no way logically one would give money to a company or a business that I don't get
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I do think that we can both agree that throwing money at things doesn't always fix the problem.
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